Circadian Sleep Quotes & Sayings

I'm not getting any sleep," she said. "I've already given up caffeine. What else can I do?" "Lots of things," I said, prepared to rattle off the tips that I'd uncovered in my research. "Near your bedtime, don't do any work that requires alert thinking. Keep your bedroom slightly chilly. Do a few prebed stretches. Also - this is important - because light confuses the body's circadian clock, keep the lights low around bedtime, say, if you go to the bathroom. Also, make sure your room is very dark when the lights are out. Like a hotel room. — Gretchen Rubin

It's uncommon, but there are some people who just have a delayed circadian rhythm and they just - they sleep better during the day then they do at night. So they've - a lot of those people with delayed sleep phase disorder they start to work in bars, they work some of the late night shifts, they sort of adjust to doing it more and more as time goes on. — Shelby Harris

So someone who is a child usually goes to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 at night, but then when they have a circadian rhythm shift, it shifts later. And this is natural. And they start to go to bed at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 and they want to sleep later. So we see this a lot in teens. — Shelby Harris

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. — Moby

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. — Andrzej Wajda

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge. — Theodore M. Burton

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! — Irvin D. Yalom

We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because many people need to get up early to go to work and they can't be sleeping until 11:00 or 12:00. So we use treatments like bright light therapy, melatonin, things like that that are very effective. — Shelby Harris

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development. — Cliff Stearns

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves. — Justin Timberlake

promisingly. Then they began to eat so that the juice of the meat ran over their beards. — Anonymous

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom. — Hippocrates

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him. — Henny Youngman

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light. — Rogier Van Der Heide

Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms. — Diane Ackerman